CRICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14972, 20 April 1912, Page 9

CRICKET.

DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Tiik cricket season in Auckland will close this afternoon. In tho senior grade district championship competition tho Grafton 'and P&rnell teams will rosunfo their final match for tho nremiership at Eden Park. Grafton, howevor, have very little chance of winning, for the scores stand:, Grafton, first innings, 55; Parnell, first innings, 101 for four wickets. The fourth grade championship has already been won by tho Ponson'by Club. So far as tho second and third grado teams are concerned, there is no official knowledge of the positions of the teams in each grade, owing to tho clubs having failed to supply either the Cricket Association or the press with complote results of tho matches. Tho Auckland Cricket Association has not yet decided what it shall do in the matter of engaging a principal coach for next season. In fact, the question, probably will not bo decided for several weeks. Tho only step that has been taken in respect to the coaches for next season is, that P. Ward has' been re-engaged. OTAGO ASSOCIATION. THE FIRST-CLASS PROVINCES. fBV TELEGRAPH, —PRESS ASSOCIATION,] Dunedin, Friday. , At a meeting of tho Otago Cricket Association hist night, a motion was carried to tho effect that tho conditions governing the Plunkct Shield should also apply to the Hawko Cup. Tho opinion was expressed that something should be don© to arrange a system of regular matches between the first-class provinces, and it was decided to write to tho various associations asking if they would send two delegates to a conierenc© in Wellington at a time to bo arranged. A motion was carried to the effect that while tho association favoured sending a team to Australia, it considered it advisable to wait for another year, and in tho mcantimo to recommend the council to invite a team from Australia to visit New Zealand next season.